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kc2aei
12-17-2005, 10:53 PM
Calling QRS CQ on 10133. Anyone in the mood for a chat?
de KC2AEI baltimore md
WB2WIK
12-17-2005, 11:46 PM
Too high up in the band for CW...
133 is where all the digital activity is.
If you'll slide down below .125, I'll see if I hear you...
WB2WIK/6
Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Dec. 17 2005,23:46)]Too high up in the band for CW...
133 is where all the digital activity is.
If you'll slide down below .125, I'll see if I hear you...
WB2WIK/6
Sad, but very true point about 30 meters.
Thirty meters must be the king of the sleeper bands. Just never much going on with thirty meters. I just received a 3 element monoband yagi for 30 that will go up at 100' next spring. I hope this might help me shake some things up. But then again, if there is not a lot of action going on in the first place, all the antennas in the world will not help.
Most of the amateur use of 30 meters takes place from 10.100 - 10.118 MHz or so. This leaves 32 Kc's going unused on a wonderful band. I have never understood this. Sure amateurs are not the primary users of 30, but I fear that we may loose the band someday to the embassy/commercial/government users.
As a sidenote: Steve (WB2WIK) are you the author of a motion picture production book? You share the same name of an author of a book that I read a while ago.
Helping keep 30 alive,
Tom kcØw
KC9ECI
12-18-2005, 12:28 AM
Pounding my brass off with a straight key on .120 and nada.
Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Dec. 17 2005,17:28)]Pounding my brass off with a straight key on .120 and nada.
Hook up a memory keyer and let it do the monotonous stuff like calling CQ...then surprise anyone who comes back to your call with a little bit of "pump action" from the ol' J-38... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
KI4LZK
12-18-2005, 02:34 AM
a'tl get them going! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
KC9ECI
12-18-2005, 03:06 AM
Nah, I have a memory keyer, and I can send via the keyboard, and often do, but then there are times, when I'm in no particular hurry, that I like to use the straight key.
w8cbc
12-18-2005, 03:13 AM
kc0w: Quote[/b] ]Sad, but very true point about 30 meters.
Thirty meters must be the king of the sleeper bands. Just never much going on with thirty meters. I just received a 3 element monoband yagi for 30 that will go up at 100' next spring. I hope this might help me shake some things up. But then again, if there is not a lot of action going on in the first place, all the antennas in the world will not help.
Huh. That's just the opposite of my experience with it so far. I always get a response when the band is open. Perhaps I've just been lucky.
Though, your point about the un-used 32kc is bang-on. I rarely ever hear anything above 10120. I usually call around 10110. Maybe I'll start wandering upward in frequency.
wa9cwx
12-18-2005, 06:31 PM
I DO tune up in frequency.
After 25 years on that band, ( I got on the day it was legal), last week I worked my FIRST station over .125.
He was calling CQ on 127.
I HAVE listened a bit to the packet guys on the top, but I do not think I have heard any Ham RTTY at all.
I think us CW types are so USED to working the bottom of bands, we just don't venture any higher.
BTW, worked Zimbabwe on 30 last night.
And one of the locals has a 3 el beam for 30, I think he did ok, but I think he said a LOT of countries don't have that allocation.
As for the US, I guess I am glad to have a QRM free band with uncanny and just strange propagation!
But I sure don't want to loose it, either!
Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Dec. 17 2005,18:46)]133 is where all the digital activity is.
Ya coulda fooled me. I keep looking for it and it's never there. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
In fact, most times I listen, it's not anywhere.
KC9ECI
12-18-2005, 11:17 PM
What kind of digital would you like to work on 30? I'm sitting here doing PSK for the Deathmatch, I'd be happy to take a break from that and do a little digital ragchew on 30.
wa9cwx
12-18-2005, 11:51 PM
Years ago I used to LOVE RTTY.
Anybody do THAT on 30, just curious?
It has been a while, but when I started, I rewired a Home Brew tube type TU set for 750 cycle tone offset.
I remember re-winding torroids and checking on a scope against an audio oscillator for 2125, etc.
Then detailed piece by piece a model 19, reperf and all. Stripping it down, cleaning, WASHING, drying in a low oven...........( it was filthy )
Re-oiling, re-greasing, cutting new felt. Took three months, worked great afterwards. Never before, never after tackled any mechanical work.
Used it for YEARS on 20 and 40 with the Drake B line.
Heavy, noisy, LOUD, (rattled the floor in my old farmhouse back then), but FUN!
Quote[/b] (wa9cwx @ Dec. 18 2005,18:51)]Years ago I used to LOVE RTTY.
Anybody do THAT on 30, just curious?
I've had 2 or 3 RTTY DX contacts on 30m. Could have a whole lot more IF MORE DX WOULD GET ON THE BAND! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
To the best of my memory, I've had exactly 1 domestic PSK31 contact on 30m. I don't remember having any DX contacts. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
Is 30 Meters the leper of ham radio when it comes to any mode, except CW? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:27 AM
Calling CQ on 10.14215 PSK31
Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Dec. 18 2005,19:27)]Calling CQ on 10.14215 PSK31
Nada.
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:33 AM
I'll call for a while yet. Someone might hear me.
Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Dec. 19 2005,00:33)]I'll call for a while yet. #Someone might hear me.
Your digi signal is 599 + here. I don't work digi.......Wanna go to CW?
Tom kcØw
Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ Dec. 18 2005,19:33)]I'll call for a while yet. Someone might hear me.
Saw you a couple of hours ago on either 40m or 20m. Didn't hear the W2 you were working, tho.
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:38 AM
Pick a freq
OK, I will call you on 10.113
Tom kcØw
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:40 AM
Listening now
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:43 AM
Nada there but static, let me pound out a CQ and see if anything happens.
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:47 AM
Nope, nada. I thought I heard you kind of faintly once, it was there and then gone. I've got about S5 noise on 30 now.
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:57 AM
What a fickle band.
KC9ECI
12-19-2005, 12:59 AM
KL7J on 10.1038
WA3KYY
12-19-2005, 04:29 PM
30M is a fun band when it is open. #I've got 95 entities for DXCC so far with several on PSK. #I don't think I've done RTTY yet but may have worked Andy, VE9DX on RTTY there. #
When doing digital be careful when you go above 10.140. #The automatic stations are assigned the top 10KHz and you run the risk of having your QSO stomped on when one of them fires up. #There is some disagreement on where to go for PSK, some folks hang out around .133 others at .138. #I've worked station at both ends of that segment.
There were several nice DX stations on last night but they were all too weak when I was listening. #Maybe tonight will be better, it's got to be better than 40M has been lately.
73,
Mike WA3KYY